Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Originally Posted by chairmenmeow47

who's watching the americans? haven't seen last night's yet, but i fucking love this show.

I am watching it. I am 2 episodes behind, the second one almost lost my interest because it was a lot slower compared to the first. Then I saw previews for the 3rd and think it will pick back up for me.

I did nothing but watch tv for the last two days. I am now only 2 episodes behind on Walking Dead and completely caught up on Project Runway. I am also blowing through my Netflix discs far to quickly. I am anxiously waiting for more Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. Being single is great for catching up on old tv shows.

Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Originally Posted by chairmenmeow47

who's watching the americans? haven't seen last night's yet, but i fucking love this show.

My boss keeps trying to talk to me about it but I am going through Felicity right now (started the last season the other day) and believe it would be too strong of a contrast to watch her in those two rolls at the same time. I should be done with Felicity in the next week or two then I will catch up on The Americans.

Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Although I haven't started it yet I feel like The Americans is a bit of a full circle for Keri Russell. Back in season 3 of Felicity, after the whole hair debacle of season 2, JJ Abrams was under a bunch of pressure from the network to give the show new life and he was starting to get over the series. After writing a new title sequence song for the show and guiding the ship back to what was so great about it in season 1 JJ's mind started to wonder about future projects.

One day while working on the set of Felicity the idea hit him, how cool would it be if the CIA came to NYU and recruited Felicity to work for them and ultimately become a globe trotting hot spy? Thus, Alias was born. Jenifer Garner was a recurring character on Felicity and since Alias started during season 4 of Felicity, he couldn't use Keri Russel as his hot spy (thankfully since Jen Garner did such a great job with the roll). In time, he gave Keri Russell a spy roll in his first feature film MI3 but it was a minor roll shadowed by Tom Cruse.

This leads me to believe that her new roll as a sleeper agent for the KGB is the full circle of this concept that came to JJ's mind through Keri's influence on Felicity.

Re: The Cathode Ray Mission: The Misc. Television Thread

Originally Posted by xanman86

Although I haven't started it yet I feel like The Americans is a bit of a full circle for Keri Russell. Back in season 3 of Felicity, after the whole hair debacle of season 2, JJ Abrams was under a bunch of pressure from the network to give the show new life and he was starting to get over the series. After writing a new title sequence song for the show and guiding the ship back to what was so great about it in season 1 JJ's mind started to wonder about future projects.

One day while working on the set of Felicity the idea hit him, how cool would it be if the CIA came to NYU and recruited Felicity to work for them and ultimately become a globe trotting hot spy? Thus, Alias was born. Jenifer Garner was a recurring character on Felicity and since Alias started during season 4 of Felicity, he couldn't use Keri Russel as his hot spy (thankfully since Jen Garner did such a great job with the roll). In time, he gave Keri Russell a spy roll in his first feature film MI3 but it was a minor roll shadowed by Tom Cruse.

This leads me to believe that her new roll as a sleeper agent for the KGB is the full circle of this concept that came to JJ's mind through Keri's influence on Felicity.